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RGG Studio's programmer team

Like a Dragon’s programmers talk about the struggles involved in making game-breaking mechanics like Kiryu’s Dragon Resurgence

Suda51

Interview: Suda51 on the resurrection of Shadows of the Damned, his undying love for Zelda, and getting more directly involved in game development

Steam Deck

The Steam Deck has seen widespread success, but it’s not stopping there. We ask Valve about the Steam Deck’s challenges and future goals

Project SEKAI feat. H

The secret behind Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! feat. Hatsune Miku’s super expressive animations. We asked the devs how Live2D makes it happen

GPTRACK50

Led by Japanese industry veterans, studio GPTRACK50 uses an unusual development style its members have “always wanted to try out”

Master Detective Archives Rain Code

Interview: From abilities that transcend human understanding to fully 3D scenes that left no room for error, Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE involved challenges incomparably bigger than Danganronpa

Sicko Snap

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s Sicko Snap was created to solve a very real problem during development. Series director and lead planner talk about the behind-the-scenes of Yakuza content-making

RGG Studio's programmer team

Like a Dragon’s programmers talk about the struggles involved in making game-breaking mechanics like Kiryu’s Dragon Resurgence

Interview: Suda51 on the resurrection of Shadows of the Damned, his undying love for Zelda, and getting more directly involved in game development

The Steam Deck has seen widespread success, but it’s not stopping there. We ask Valve about the Steam Deck’s challenges and future goals

Project SEKAI feat. H

The secret behind Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! feat. Hatsune Miku’s super expressive animations. We asked the devs how Live2D makes it happen

Led by Japanese industry veterans, studio GPTRACK50 uses an unusual development style its members have “always wanted to try out”

Master Detective Archives Rain Code

Interview: From abilities that transcend human understanding to fully 3D scenes that left no room for error, Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE involved challenges incomparably bigger than Danganronpa

Latest News

Stellar Blade Steam PC release coming main character Eve

Stellar Blade will continue getting new content ahead of Steam release in 2025, Shift Up says

Shift Up confirms that Stellar Blade will be getting a PC release, but until then PS5 players have more updates to look forward to, like the NieR Automata collab.

Verity Townsend

2024-11-13 13:17

Editor’s choices

Are Japanese Steam reviews more critical? We spoke with 8 publishers to hear their thoughts

Are Japanese Steam reviews more critical? We spoke with 8 publishers to hear their thoughts

Pokémon Sleep: Japanese walkthrough site lists “sleeping pills” as a tool for real competitive sleepers, but quickly backtracks

Pokémon Sleep: Japanese walkthrough site lists “sleeping pills” as a tool for real competitive sleepers, but quickly backtracks

Non-gaming news

Indie games

Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography PC Nintendo Switch indie language learning game

Indie Games, News

Learn Japanese by taking photos in this cozy new game (Updated)

Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography is a fun new language learning game that helps you learn everyday Japanese by taking photos.

new Deltarune chapter 1 and 2 Toby Fox

2024-11-22 11:34

Toby Fox is releasing a new build of Deltarune Chapter 1 and 2

nintendo

Super Nintendo World Japan Shigeru Miyamoto and Donkey Kong pose

2024-11-12 11:18

Nintendo to open new Donkey Kong Country area at Super Nintendo World in Japan and the USA